Metal tags to laces



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A. D. DELAVIERE. TOOL FOR AFPIXING METAL TAGS T0 LAGES.

No. 511,571. Patented Feb.. 3, 1885.

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TOOL FOR AFPIXING METAL TAGS- T0 LAGES.

No. 311,571. 1 Patented-Tens; 1885.

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ALBERT DIDIER DELAVIERE, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

TOOL FUR AFFIXING METAL TAGS TO LACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,571, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed December 20, 1584. (No model.) Patented in France June 9, 1884, No. 162,640.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT DIDIER DELA- VIERE, of the city of Paris, France, have invented an Improved Tool for Affixing Metal Tags to Laces and for other Similar Purposes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, and for which I obtained Letters Patent in France for fifteen years, dated June 9, 1884, No. 162,640.

The ends of boot and corset laces, and especially braided laces, whether fiat or round, are generally sheathed in a small sheetunetal tube (called a tag) for the purpose of preventing the unraveling of the lace and facilitating the threading of the lace through the eyelets of the corset or boot.

This invention has for its object an improved tool for affixing the tag to the lace.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a plan view of the tool, (full size.) Fig. 2rcpresents a side view of the end farthest from the lever, the tool being inverted. Fig. 3 represents in side view on alargerscale the working parts of the machine in position for rolling or wrapping the sheet metal round the lace, the lace and the metal being in section. Fig. 4 represents thesame parts in the position assumed at the completion of the op eration.

The tool consists of a steel bedblock, a, provided with ears I) for fixing it on a bench or other support, a sliding jaw, a, and a lever, (1, operating this slide. The block a is recessed to form a fixed jaw, as shown in elevation in Figs. 2, 3, and 4., and the whole of this recessed space is entirely accessible from the side, to allow the introduction of the piece of sheet metal and the lace. The slide 0 works be tween two dovetailed gibs, e, and slides over the surface 9 of the bed-block. The block is rabbeted at h, and the partz' between g and h is hollowed out in the shape of asemi-cylinder to form the fixed jaw. The slide is provided with a correspondingly-hollowed jaw, j, and an extension, k,at the upper side, equal in length to h, and sliding over it when the semi-cylindrical jaws j and t come together and form a cylindrical space. Thelever d is pivoted on a stud, Z, fixed'to the block a, and it has aslot, m, which receives a pin, a, fixed on the slide 0, whereby a to-and-fro motion is imparted to the latter by the oscillation of the lever.

The mode of using the tool is as follows:

The slide is drawn back as in Fig. 3, the piece of metal 0,cut to size, is placed onthe surface one of its longitudinal edges being closeup to the hollow z, and the lace p placed on this piece of metal and in the hollow i. The slide a is then brought quickly forward by means of the lever, the lower acute edge of the hollow j passing beneath the plate 0. The plate 0 being thus pressed edgewise between the two semi-cylindricaljaws,a11d being prevented from escaping by the part 70, is bentinto the form of a cylindrical tube corresponding to the surfaces andj and imprisoning within it the end of the lace, as shown in Fig 4.

The operation is very simple, and perfect tags may be obtained if care be taken to properly proportion the width of the sheet of metal to the development of the surface of the two semi-cylindrical jaws i and j.

I have shown in Figs. 5 and 6 a simiiar tool slightly modified in detaih In Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 the pin a of the slide 0 is fixed near the rear end of the slide, and therefore when the slide is drawn back the pressure of the hand on the lever tends to cant the slide, which is objectionable. To remedy this defect the pin a is fixed near the working end of the slide so that the pressure of the hand cannot tend to raise this part, being always applied directly over this point. In this case the lever d is made of curved form, as shown in, Fig. 5, in order that its handle shall be at right angles with the block when the slide is in its forward position, as the maximum effective leverage is thus obtained at the point where it is required.

Fig. 5 is a top view, and Fig. 6 is a side view, the lever being in section. v

The lever cl is of bent form, and the slot m,

which receives the pin a, stands obliquely to the line of the handle, and the pinion n is fixed near the working end of the slide 0.

The other parts of the tool being the same as before, no further description is necessary.

The essential feature of myinvention, which renders the working of the tool very simple and easy, is the combination of the slide and the lever.

By changing the form of the working parts of the tool it may be employed for other operations than affixing tagsfor instance, for perforating and joining different pieces.

I claim- A tool for affixing tags and for other pnr- The foregoing specification of my improved poses, consisting, essentially, of aslide, a, retool for affixing metal tags to laces and for 10 cessed at j and provided with extension k, a other similar purposes signed by me this 19th block, a, having a semi-cylindrical hollow, z, 1 day of November, 1884. I

5 and the surface h, and a lever, d, pivoted at Z, and having a slot m, engaging with a pin n, for imparting motion to the slide a, substan- ALBERT DIDIER DELAVIERE. W'itnesses:

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tially as shown and described. ALBERT MoREAU. 

